MMXXII or In a Future Dystopian "Amerika," a Senior Citizen Recalls the Former USA's 2022 Midterms (A L'il Limerick for 'Lection Day)

Two M's, two X's, two I's:
first election post MAGA's Big Lies.
I remember it well.
'Twas when states went to hell
as we learn'd how dictatoheads rise.

     Two M's, two X's, two I's,
nor did stuff like such guff cause surprise:

weeds of change long were sewn

and we all should have known

we'd need learn how democracy dies.

Mondo Imperativo Numero Tre or Get in the Mood...Once More: Yet Another Alphabet

Ask again later!
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia! 
Carry me back to old Virginny!
Do the Mashed Potatoes! 
En garde! 
Fasten your seat belts!
Give us a kiss! 
Hands up! 
Into the breach once more, dear friends!
Just do it! 
King me! 
Lock and load!
Maintain low tones!
Name your poison!
Off with her head! 
Physician, heal thyself!
Quiet down, you lot! 
Row, row, row your boat!
Stop me if you've heard this one! 
Take me out to the ball game!
Unhand that woman!
Venite adoremus!
Walk softly and carry a big stick! 
Xerox your boobs!
You've got to believe me! 
Zamboni this! 

Mondo Imperativo Numero Due or Get in the Mood...Again! Another Alphabet

Ανδρα μοι εννεπεε...!
Burn, baby, burn! 
Come to Marlborough Country!
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! 
Engage! 
Fuhgeddaboudit! 
Grab your coat and get your hat!
Hold the mayo! 
Into the woods!
Joke if you will! 
Katy bar the door! 
Laugh, clown, laugh!
Make mine a double!
Nota bene! 
Only connect!
Pardon my dust! 
Quit buggin' me!

Read 'em and weep! 
Show me the money! 
Turn on, tune it, drop out! 
Use the stairs!

Vote early and often!

Wait, wait, Mr. Postman!

Xerox your dick!

Yield to traffic in the circle!

Zoom in closer! 

Spoondelayo

The stuff that supports things you've done...
...each fall off a Bronto needs one:
     a leg to stand on / a Steg to land on

Mondo Imperativo Numero Uno or Get In The Mood, Dude! An Alphabet

Abandon hope all ye who enter here! 
Buckle down, Winsocky!
Cherchez la femme! 
Don't make me come in there! 
Eat my shorts! 
Follow the drinking gourd!
Gentlemen, start your engines!
Have some Madeira, m'dear!
Imagine all the people living life in peace!

Join the navy and see the world!

Keep off the grass! 

Leave it to Beaver! 

Mind the gap!

Name that tune!

Open sesame!

Play it again, Sam!

Quit while you're ahead!

Remember the Alamo! 

Smoke if ya' got 'em!

Tell ‘em Groucho sent ya’!

Up and at 'em!

Visit the sick!

Win With Wilkie!

Xerox your butt! 

Yankee go home! 

Zip it!

Spooney Tunes

God the Father, Lord of Life...
...'tis I will help you, lady wife:
     He who made the Lamb / me who'll aid thee, ma'am

Where's found the meaning of romance...

...to sum those stars, give "up" a glance: 

     a Book o' Love / a look above

Spoon Billets

A shortbread cookie, square in shape...
...bedeck a kook in, say, a cape: 
     a Lorna Doone / adorn a loon

Spoon City

Film where Indy's plu-imperil'd...
...mates in caper pull'd by Harold:
     "Raiders of the Lost Ark" / aiders of the Ross'd lark

Man of the Cloth Antonio Bandanas: a fabricature by Ulysses Poe

Colored pencils, 

black chemical 

marker and real 

dimensional 

neckerchief with 

matching head-

band in cotton 

paisley-print 

fabric on 16" by 

20" canvas 

stretched over 

pine frame

Requiescat in Spooner

He hands you a hand towel and whisks off your coat...
...Christopher's crypt sports a Latinate quote:* 
     men's room attendant / Wren's tomb amendment

     * “Here in its foundations lies the architect of this 

church and city, Christopher Wren, who lived beyond 

ninety years, not for his own profit but for the public 

good. Reader, if you seek his monument -- look around 

you. Died 25 Feb. 1723” -- in Latin, of course. 

Spoons of the Misbegotten

Rare gem and goose are both pursued...

...old boy drops hints, some very rude:

     "The Blue Carbuncle" / the "clue-barb" uncle

Another Doyle tale...? Ain't no way...

...my burro's busses make me bray: 
     "The Case of the Missing Fuel" / the face of the kissing mule